EECS News: Kicking the Cloud(s)
Jan 14, 2011, 03:34 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Gregg Kleiner)
"Alex Polvi's career trajectory — from his first job
running a chain saw on his family's Christmas tree farm outside
tiny Amity, Oregon, through various student positions in computer
science at Oregon State University, to being CEO of a recently
acquired Silicon Valley startup — has been nothing short of
stratospheric.
"Stratospheric seems a fitting term, given the software company
that Polvi, 25, and two other OSU Beavers conceived, cofounded, and
cashed-out within just two years is called Cloudkick and deals with
the stratosphere of cyberspace: cloud computing.
"Cloud computing enables companies to utilize the Internet to
tap server space, software tools, and other resources on-demand,
instead of tying up capital to own computing power, storage
solutions, and software that are needed only at certain times.
Cloudkick's product is a set of highly visual and easy-to-use tools
that enables system administrators to better monitor, analyze, and
manage the resources they use in the cloud."
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